Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-05-07


struoL works OF double this capacity. Ar
rangements have been concluded for making
brick on large scale. A. inalleable iron
foundry Is contemplated, and n building and
loan association, with capital OF one hun
dred Thousand dollars, organized. The SOUTH
ern Machine Company, OF Sheibyvile, Tenn,
have agreed TO move their plant 70 Florence.
Its capital Is one hundred Thousand dollars.
The Florence Street Railway Company Is or
ganized with a capital of fifty thousand doll
lars ull subscribed. wnter-worga com pany
have o capital of seventy.iive thousand dol
lars, oil taken. They are ready for n con-
tract IN build the works, and an agreement
has been reached with the agent OF Samuel
H. Bullock 4 Co, OF New York. The capital
stock of fifty Thousand dollars Is nil taken In
a gas and electric light company. VIM. II.
Brunbridge and associates have capital
stock OF ten thousand dollars, all taken, for
the Florence e Canning and preserving Com
Company have given all the land needed.
In Florence the visitor still finds
many of the old typical Southers
homes, and the society of the beautl-
full city has long been noted for its
refnements and intelligence.
1t is not Intended In this article to assert
that asoeial, political, or economical revo-
luton has not been wrought In the South,
nor that wonderful changes have not oc-
CURED In the habits, In the fortunes, or in the
conditions OF individuals and the Southern
Masses generally. Many OF these changes
have not been PARALLEL in modern times. A
possible pendent to the changes In the SOUTH
ern States wrought by the Civil War muy be
| found In the great French epoch of 80, and yet
| is there to be found Il true Frenchman who
will assert that ut this period old France was
entirely eliminated and new France sub
stituted? The young Republican France OF
to-day Is the same old France of the Gaula.
the France of the Romans, the France OF
| - Erunpa n "
| the France OF Caesar the France Of
Cearlemagne. So In the South there has been
no entirely Gew birth, nothing absolutely
new created. A yonng and vigorous element
| Is growing up In the South ready TO toll and
work. The sun yet shines upon our broad
| and fertile acres The same congenial cli-
mate with which kind Heaven endowed the
old South Is yet here. IL cotton Is no longer
king in company with corn and wheat, he
makes yet an excellent vice-governor. The
negro, although no longer slave, is still the
same faithful gentle. and, when kindly
treated, the same subservlent friend and CO.
adjutant in the labor field that he proved
| himself to be In the olden days when he hung
up his hoe In the evening at the door OF his
humble cabin home Mt Mount Vernon or
| Monticello. And In the corn. cotton, or
wheat fields OF the Sunny South to-day he
will cheertully and willingly follow where
ever the white man himself has energy
TO lead. He does not riot. lie never strikes.
He tolls for US, labors for US withouta muir
muir, and Is always thankful for kind word
and helping hand. Far be the day when
| the Southerner comes to revle his old friend
and ex-King cotton, or to turn his hand In
anger against his faithful ally, the ''old corn
| field darby"
Twenty years ago the rich farms of
the Tennessee Valley were over run
by an invading enemy, the crops
destroyed, the dwellings and cotton
gins burned and the stock and
negroes taken away. Much damage
was also done to the property in and
around Florence. Many Of us who
visited Florence last week were there
during the times of misfortune in
the years now long gone by, but the
labor of twenty years has restored
much that had been so wantonly
destroyed. AS the writer, with {
group of friends last week, stood
looking out from the beautiful city
over the fields where Southern Sol
diers once fought so bravely and 81
well, the scene was one of happy
peace. The soft purple of Southern
evening sunset lowered over The
quiet, peaceful landscape, and moth
: ing remained to tell of the mad
passions that once surged and ebbet
over that lovely valley. Honest tot
had resumed its wanted sway, TIN
ruined homes had been rebuilt, the
) fields once trampled by the feet o
, armed men were restored to cultiva
ton, and the magnificent Tennessee
river as it mingled in the misty land
scape and added its grandeur to tn
boundless view, gave no remem
{ brance that its waters had once beer
, Redeemed with the blood of the gal
liant men whose homes were on it
T banks. All save the tombs hav
! passed away; but from each Of thos
. grass-grown mounds the mute appea
! goes up: "Have these brave mel
died in vain ?" And this question
: was answered by the hundreds presen
E FROM both North and South: "No
1 this fair land was worthy of the dc
! Tense of heroes. No, they did nc
. die In vain.
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